Thread: Show me your knives

This nasty old Opinel is my go-to.

Many flaws, like blade getting stuck when the wood swells from blood/water and other nasty shit getting stuck in the holes and moving parts. I can still smell goat buck oil in the blade slot. Yuck. But otherwise it has done me well, easy to sharpen. Father got me a couple of nice morakniv knives for christmas that I still need to use. Im just afraid of fucking up the blade as I am lousy at sharpening stainless steel. Need to find a good sharpening service in Dunedin.

Originally Posted by JessicaChen

This nasty old Opinel is my go-to.
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Many flaws, like blade getting stuck when the wood swells from blood/water and other nasty shit getting stuck in the holes and moving parts. I can still smell goat buck oil in the blade slot. Yuck. But otherwise it has done me well, easy to sharpen. Father got me a couple of nice morakniv knives for christmas that I still need to use. Im just afraid of fucking up the blade as I am lousy at sharpening stainless steel. Need to find a good sharpening service in Dunedin.

I have a couple of these too that I uses as camp kitchen knives because of the nice thin blades. I pulled mine apart and took a little extra wood out of the blade slot to compensate for the wood swelling. They don't jamb up any more.

Originally Posted by JessicaChen

This nasty old Opinel is my go-to.
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Many flaws, like blade getting stuck when the wood swells from blood/water and other nasty shit getting stuck in the holes and moving parts. I can still smell goat buck oil in the blade slot. Yuck. But otherwise it has done me well, easy to sharpen. Father got me a couple of nice morakniv knives for christmas that I still need to use. Im just afraid of fucking up the blade as I am lousy at sharpening stainless steel. Need to find a good sharpening service in Dunedin.

I’m not in Dunedin, but if you post them to me I can sharpen stainless no problems at all, come back shaving sharp, with a mirror polish.

Originally Posted by Shelley

I’m not in Dunedin, but if you post them to me I can sharpen stainless no problems at all, come back shaving sharp, with a mirror polish.

Sweet. If i can't find a satisfactory service locally I will give you a message and we can figure out pricing. Ive tried sharpening stainless steel with spyderco triangle sharpening system and with basic stones but I can never keep the angle consistent. With carbon steel it is easy because I can keep the angle consistent for the very few strokes necessary to sharpen it.

Originally Posted by Nick-D

Been ages since I finished anything. 1095 carbon steel ktip with hamon, black g10, canvas micarta handle with hidden pins. Super thin geometry, mean cutter.

That is bloody beautiful aesthetic knife. Looks like the sort of thing that would sell for over 150+ dollars each if a designer logo was slapped onto it.